Forgive me that this isn't really PHP related, but solely MySQL.. but
the MySQL mailing lists drive me nuts and figured someone here would
have a quick answer.
I'm trying to sort by a date and time field(s) (two separate fields).
It's a dumb system but until we do the next revision, it's
Unfortunately, no. The dates and times are stored as text. So here's what I
get:
2006-01-10 07:00 PM
2006-01-10 08:00 PM
2006-01-10 09:00 AM
2006-01-10 09:00 PM
(notice the AM out of order)
For anyone interested, here's the big ugly version.. if anyone knows of a
function that I can use
Ahh! Thank you Philip! That's what I was looking for! I see what I did wrong
now.
I was using the date format strings wrong. I was using it like I'd use it for
DATE_FORMAT() instead of as an input filter.
This is what I was trying to do:
select STR_TO_DATE('2003-11-05 06:00 PM', '%Y-%m-%d
Youcould also try CASTing
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/cast-functions.html) the data
Bastien
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL date casting..
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:51:44 -0500
Ahh! Thank you Philip! That's
